Dialogue Platforms
Global and Regional Dialogue Platforms provide an interactive and engaging space for our community on anticipatory action to thrive. We share knowledge, exchange best practice and lessons learned, to collaboratively ensure a fundamental change within the humanitarian system: from reaction to anticipation.
The International Dialogue Platform takes place once a year. Additionally, three regional Dialogue Platforms are held in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. The events gather humanitarian actors, meteorologists, climate scientists, national governments and decision-makers. We discuss how to improve Forecast-based Financing and Anticipatory Humanitarian Action in general, how to implement the concept into existing projects and how to advance the use of weather and climate data.
New challenges in 2020 have transitioned our Global and Regional Dialogue platforms to the virtual space, yet remained interactive, fun and engaging. We designed a unique LIVE Blog which captures the key insights from speakers and their presentations or talks, as well as enabling full access to recordings of all plenaries and sessions. Click the links below to get full access to the LIVE Blog.
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Global Dialogue Platform
Global Dialogue Platform 2021
The 9th Global Dialogue Platform will be hosted virtually by the Anticipation Hub from the 7th to 9th of December 2021. We welcome anticipatory humanitarian actors from around the world to this special event, co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP), with a live studio in Rome. The theme of this year’s Platform is ‘Meeting the challenges of future crises: Protecting lives and livelihoods with anticipatory action.’
Join us for a series of panel discussions, thematic presentations and interactive events that will bring together practitioners, scientists and government representatives from around the world to explore how anticipatory action can address the compounding and intertwined effects of the climate crisis, rising conflicts and economic shocks on the world’s most vulnerable people.
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The 8th Global Dialogue Platform was held virtually from the 8th to 10th of December 2020 and showcased 42+ diverse and interactive events around the theme 'Collaborating for Climate, COVID-19 and Conflict: Getting Ahead of Crises with Anticipatory Action'.
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Africa Dialogue Platform
Africa Dialogue Platform 2021
The 4th Africa Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action took place from the 29th of June to the 1st of July. During these three days 290 participants came together to share experiences through an abundance of interactive and creative virtual sessions - including collective storytelling, poetry, games, quizzes, cartoons, hot seat interviews and much more.
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The 3rd Africa Dialogue Platform was held virtually from the 27th to 29th of October 2020 with nearly 300 participants. A wide range of diverse and interactive events took place, around the topics of anticipation in the humanitarian system, Forecast-based Financing, Early Warning-Early Action and Disaster Risk Financing..
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Asia-Pacific Dialogue Platform
Asia-Pacific Dialogue Platform 2021
The 5th Asia Pacific Dialogue Platform saw practitioners, scientists, governments and donors take part in a mix of panel debates, thematic sessions and roundtables to discuss the opportunities and challenges for enabling anticipatory action in the Asia-Pacific region.
Held from 19-21 October 2021, the Dialogue Platform focused on the theme ‘Anticipatory action to meet the challenges of the climate change crisis’. As humanitarian actors, we are used to dealing with disasters, but the climate crisis is posing new challenges for everyone. The Dialogue Platform was the perfect place to learn together and identify how the anticipatory action community can deal with the multiple challenges ahead.
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he 4th Asia-Pacific Dialogue Platform was held virtually from the 17th to 19th of November 2020. A wide range of diverse and interactive events took place, around the topics of learnings from activations, implementation in the COVID19 context, collaboration & scaling up, and institutionalisation.
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Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Dialogue Platform
Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Dialogue Platform 2021
The 3rd Regional Dialogue Platform in Latin America and the Caribbean, virtual edition, was held from June 2 to 4 with the participation of more than 450 people, representing around 40 countries. The agenda of the event promoted the importance of disaster and crisis anticipation and the scaling-up of different anticipatory action initiatives in the region.
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Southern Africa Dialogue Platform
Southern Africa Dialogue Platform
The 1st ever Southern Africa Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action took place from May 26 - 27, 2021. Over 300 participants registered for the event from 45 countries. The first day provided a space for organizations to showcase their anticipatory work and explore synergies and opportunities for joint action, while the second day focused on the development of a joint roadmap for anticipatory actions in southern Africa.
The highlights included a high level panel with executive representatives from IFRC, GRC/Anticipation Hub, FAO, WFP, the Regional Specialized meteorological centers from both Southern Africa (SAWS) and the South-West Indian Ocean (Météo France) and PIROI. All these organisations were advocating for anticipation as the new normal in the humanitarian system and pledged their dedication towards enhanced collaboration in order to scale up robust AA in Southern Africa.
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If you would like to learn more about the specific outcomes of each Global and Regional Dialogue Platform, click the links below to access the reports.